Hello Maurice!

Wednesday March 01 2006 10:11, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hey Sean!

 MK> Mar 01 08:31 06, Sean Rima wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 SR>> Oh I can never have enough :) I just seem to keep finding old
 SR>> boxes somewhere to do jobs :)

 MK> That isn't a problem here either.  I've got two boxes sitting on the
 MK> floor next to me for a couple of weeks now that I probably could get
 MK> working in short order.  Also the neighbour has a storage area filled
 MK> with them and I am sure there are more then a few there that could be
 MK> fired up if there was a need.


I have 4 Pcs at the moment and 2 laptops :)

 SR>> Mine is a basic 486 PC nothing fancy just does the firewall and
 SR>> isdn dialup, wish we had some form of broadband here

 MK> That sounds excellent.  Even with broadband a 486 can easily keep up
 MK> as far as connecting local machines to the outside world goes.  The
 MK> only slowdown I have noticed is on 100Mb network interfaces but there
 MK> we don't do masquerading/firewalling so it isn't an issue.  I think
 MK> for your cause the 486 is the way to go.  They tend to be rock solid
 MK> dependable machines especially for grunt work.  I have to get mine
 MK> back online again but have been distracted by a few things as of late.

Yeah it does the job with hardly any disk space or ram :)

Sean

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